Of course the Iraqis who fight the invaders are "terrorists". It is a major part of their strategy. (Ake)

I agree for the insurgents who are Iraqis and who actually fight the invaders. I have some kind of respect for them.

However, (1) there are a couple of non-Iraqis involved with a completely different agenda and (2) all too often they (including Iraqis now) do not fight against the invaders but target deliberately civilians and other Iraqis. I have no respect for them.

Deliberately targetting civilians, and killing prisoners, that is terrorism sounds like a good working definition to me.

If I take that definition Americans are not without blame, but most of the blame in my eyes rests with the insurgents.

Wolfgang